Hacker News: thehappypm

New comment by thehappypm in "Why media fans want to escape algorithms with CDs, DVDs and vinyl"

thehappypm — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:13:41 +0000

Hacking a Tonie box would be so awesome

New comment by thehappypm in "Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi"

thehappypm — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:27:33 +0000

Why is this a global config — shouldn’t this be configurable per customer?

New comment by thehappypm in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

thehappypm — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:57:10 +0000

I have an Israeli friend. His answer:

This result is exactly what the anti-Israel coalition wanted. They bet Bibi would go nuts and burn up the remaining global goodwill that Israel had, leaving them isolated.

New comment by thehappypm in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

thehappypm — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:54:31 +0000

This is not factually accurate to say they own most of Google, the most I’ve seen of the two of them combined owning presently is 12%

New comment by thehappypm in "EV Sales Are Booming in Europe with Gasoline at $10 a Gallon"

thehappypm — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:23:35 +0000

I charge mine on a 120 V 20 amp outlet in the US that was already in my garage… And it works fine for me

New comment by thehappypm in "Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space"

thehappypm — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:59:10 +0000

Yeah, but those places don’t have 24/7 solar energy

New comment by thehappypm in "U.S. Small Biz Can't Ship to the EU Anymore"

thehappypm — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:05:54 +0000

This is not a tariff issue, unbelievably, but one about reducing competition.

I’m not sure I’m following the argument here, because tariffs are all about protectionism, which is a form of reducing external competition

New comment by thehappypm in "How GLM built its own inference infrastructure"

thehappypm — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:38:11 +0000

Yes, but the lag time is crucial. The NY Times estimated that China has 10% the compute capacity of the US. They may catch up, but by that time the US labs could have too much of an advantage

New comment by thehappypm in "Radiation link in flight attendant's breast cancer, French court finds"

thehappypm — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:34:22 +0000

This isn’t exactly correct. Cancer is not (typically) caused by a single DNA mutation, but multiple accumulated errors.

New comment by thehappypm in "Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit"

thehappypm — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:11:08 +0000

This may not be true in all jurisdictions

New comment by thehappypm in "Ask HN: Is this the worst time to be human?"

thehappypm — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:01:10 +0000

Perhaps during various east Asian famines as well..

New comment by thehappypm in "How to put 170 atoms in an atom"

thehappypm — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:57:01 +0000

Honestly, no. These weird states of matter have extremely different properties to ordinary matter. Weird properties is how we get things like superconductors, magnets, semiconductors, photovoltaics.. so strange state of matter with weird properties could very well produce some magic

New comment by thehappypm in "U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal"

thehappypm — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:35:15 +0000

Also net population loss of working age adults via deportation and self deportation.

New comment by thehappypm in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

thehappypm — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:00:59 +0000

The objectives are wildly different.

Vietnam is more like asking the question, could the US Military occupy all of Iran? Which I think the answer is essentially No, just like Vietnam.

The strait is one small objective , and the US had lots of successes in Vietnam with capturing key strategic areas, they just couldn’t cover that into a successful occupation

New comment by thehappypm in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

thehappypm — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 01:14:55 +0000

It is public opinion that is keeping the US from using boots on the ground.

New comment by thehappypm in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

thehappypm — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:47:27 +0000

The reason the US can’t take the strait is that the war is unpopular and the American people don’t want it to happen. The US military could absolutely 100% invade and take the street, but it would be extremely unpopular and very expensive.

New comment by thehappypm in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

thehappypm — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:45:25 +0000

I don’t know, the US is the world‘s largest oil producer, and there’s a lot of people in America who are very happy about the high oil prices. Doesn’t exactly trickle down to the average American though. But there are many other industries is that matter a whole lot more to the US economy, for example, if Taiwan stop selling chips to the US, we would be really screwed.

New comment by thehappypm in "Apple is getting this wrong"

thehappypm — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:15:45 +0000

Nit-but Apple has fallen to Nvidia and Alphabet, which is a sign of the times.

New comment by thehappypm in "How to Survive 3 Years in North Korea as a Foreigner"

thehappypm — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:29:01 +0000

The less snarky answer is that our current system does not have a functioning global government. There is no real “we”. Influencing how other countries operate can only be done by force or diplomacy, and because North Korea has nuclear weapons, force is basically off the table, and they’re not interested in diplomacy.

New comment by thehappypm in "Flavor Graveyard"

thehappypm — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:24:06 +0000

I went there once and someone had left a bouquet of flowers on a flavor